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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 14:44:28 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message <87slcmxwlf.fsf@geemail.com>, Hadron 
 writes
>Bernard Peek  writes:
>
>> In message , David Floyd
>>  writes
>>
>>>>It seems you need a lesson on Usenet.
>>>>
>>>>1) Usenet is NOT an immediate medium.
>>>>2) Propogation of posts may or may not make it to the server I read from
>>>>3) he posted the list as a result of MY POST, prior to that, you've all
>>>>been claiming a bunch of hooey with nothing to back it up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You need a lesson in politeness.  Since you don't comprehend
>>> politeness I retort that you (wanker), are in my kill file (because
>>> I use Turnpike and am able to do so), so there is no point in
>>> replying to me.
>>
>> David, I'm trying to get the very helpful and friendly people in this
>> newsgroup to help me find a native Linux equivalent to Turnpike. This
>> isn't helping.
>
>Did you list the things specific to Turnpike? All I saw was that it
>handled nntp and email. Well, thunderbird does that too doesnt it?

I did, and yes Thunderbird does both those things. I run Thunderbird on 
my Ubuntu workstation but I don't consider it good enough for everyday 
use. For instance the threading display for newsgroups is very similar 
to that in some earlier news clients, and I find it unusable. The 
difficulty isn't just finding a program that does the same that Turnpike 
does, it's finding a program (or programs) that can do them at least as 
well.

Turnpike has its faults too. It's completely closed, there are no 
published specifications for its file structure. There is no API to 
allow it to be integrated into other systems. All of the data is stored 
in a few monolithic data files.



-- 
Bernard Peek
back in search of cognoscenti
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